Overview

• Under the proposal, a new Removals Force would replace Home Office Immigration Enforcement, with police required to run immigration checks on everyone they stop or arrest.
• Powers would include live facial recognition used without warning, with the party saying new illegal arrivals would be removed within a week and barred from making asylum claims.
• The wider Borders Plan seeks to repeal the Human Rights Act, leave the ECHR and the Council of Europe trafficking convention, drastically narrow asylum eligibility, abolish immigration tribunals and limit appeals and legal aid.
• The Conservatives set a target of 150,000 removals a year, or at least 750,000 over a five-year parliament, and say the £1.6bn annual cost would be funded by closing asylum hotels and cutting system costs.
• Labour and rights advocates question the legality and ethics of the plan and cite criticism of the US ICE model, as PA analysis shows 34,401 small-boat crossings so far this year.